Abstract

1. Introduction: Australia's Asian sporting context 2. 'Despicable and degrading': Australian - Ceylonese sporting relations 3. 'Little giants of the ring': fighting race and making men on the Australia - Philippines boxing circuit, 1919 - 1923 4. A new China: using sport to expose a multi-class race through the 1923 Chinese soccer tour of Australia 5. Oldfield's XI and the golden bond of empire: the 1927 Australian cricket tour of Singapore and Malaya 6. Second rate Java Jaunters: soccer football, the imaginary grandstand, cultural diplomacy and Australia's Asian context 7. 'Lively little visitors' and 'peaceful ambassadors': reading Japanese sporting tours through the Australian press - 1926 to 1935 8. 'Indian hockey [and football] tricks': race, magic, wonder and empire in Australian - Indian sporting relations, 1926 - 1938 9. Playing fields

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